West Prairie School District will end the 2013-14 fiscal year with a deficit of $311,987.

The school district won't be alone — Macomb and Bushnell-Prairie City School districts announced earlier this month they'll also end the fiscal year on a red note.

Expected revenues for the year are $7.7 million and expenditures are $8 million.

West Prairie Superintendent Jonathan Heerboth pointed to continued declines in General State Aid, the basic funding from the state sent to each of the state's school districts.

Heerboth said West Prairie's GSA this year is $1.37 million, about $175,000 less than it should receive because of the state prorated the amount due by 11 percent.

GSA is calculated with a foundation formula of $6,119 per student, district enrollment and the value of property within the district.

Heerboth also noted that West Prairie's enrollment has slowly been declining while it's equalized assessed valuation has steadily increased, meaning less GSA.

Among West Prairie's expenditures for the 2013-14 fiscal year are repairs to the high school roof and the high school parking lot. Heerboth said he's uncertain of the cost.

In other business, the board continued discussions on implementing a random drug testing policy, but took no action on the matter.

Following the board meeting, Heerboth said his goal is to have one in place by the end of December.

"We have an existing drug policy, it just doesn't include random drug testing and that's the one factor that we're adding," he said. "But before we do that we want to review our code of conduct to include consequences of positive tests before we implement a new policy."